Company Announcements In April, Oxford Nanopore raised $41 million in new funding via a private placement of ordinary shares. Dolomite signed a collaboration agreement to exclusively distribute Sphere Fluidics’ picodroplet products and to develop and sell new picodroplet products. Pacific Biosciences announced in May a collaboration with the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in areas […]
Company Announcements Roche 454 Life Sciences and RainDance Technologies announced in March that they will develop and commercialize a targeted next-generation sequencing solution for ADME and will launch a core ADME gene-screening research panel that enables the detection of known and unknown functional mutations associated with drug metabolism and response. Fluidigm’s 2010 revenues increased 32.3% […]
Company Announcements Nobel Laureate Paul Berg, PhD, retired from Affymetrix’s Board in May. In March, Gentel Biosciences acquired the SilverQuant trademark from Eppendorf. Gentel acquired the rights to the array-based chromogenic detection technology in 2008 for use in protein-detection assay applications. In June, Microarrays Inc. named three new exclusive distributors: Cambio for the UK and […]
Company Announcements In April, ThalesNano named Utek International a distributor for Taiwan. Product Introductions ThalesNano launched the H-Cube Pro flow reactor, which expands the range and throughput of hydrogenation reactions compared with the H-Cube and offers active cooling for more selective reactions. Asynt introduced the ReactoMate Compact, a small, safe and super-stable lab reaction system, […]
High-throughput electroporators employ a microplate format, which allows simultaneous transfections of up to 384 wells. Electroporation introduces nucleic acids into cells by exposing the cells to a rapid pulse of voltage that causes the pores in the cells’ membranes to open temporarily. Unlike other transfection methods, there is no limit to the size of DNA […]
Company Announcements In March, Transgenomic expanded its license with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute to include Ice COLD-PCR (CO-amplification at Lower Denaturing temperature PCR), a technique that further extends sensitivity of mutation detection, and an exclusive license for analysis of COLD-PCR products by Pyrosequencing. WaferGen Biosystems and NuGEN Technologies agreed to codevelop and comarket integrated workflows […]
Waltham, MA 5/5/11—PerkinElmer has acquired Geospiza, a developer of software systems for the management of genetic analysis and laboratory workflows delivered through a cloud-computing environment. Financial details were not disclosed. PerkinElmer stated that the acquisition supports its Next Generation DNA Sequencing and Analysis Services offerings (see IBO 2/15/11). “The acquisition of Geospiza, along with existing […]
Company Announcements Agilent and Sage Science signed a comarketing agreement in February for Agilent’s 2100 Bioanalyzer and Sage Science’s Pippin Prep DNA size-selection system. Life Technologies introduced a fourth $1 million challenge in its Life Grand Challenges Contest: to sequence the genome and all RNA content derived from a single cancer cell using the 5500 […]
Company Announcements GenomeQuest and Ingenuity Systems integrated their respective Sequence Data Management platform and IPA software. Analytik Jena’s AJ Blomesystem subsidiary, a LIMS supplier, acquired a 55% share in comicon, which develops software modules for lipid chemistry for food analysis. CLC bio will participate in the EU’s COGANGS (Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing) project […]
Chalfont St. Giles, UK 4/28/11—GE Healthcare has agreed to acquire Applied Precision for an undisclosed amount. Applied Precision supplies cellular imaging technology for the cell biology and biomedical research sectors, including high-resolution and super-resolution microscopy instruments with software and data visualization tools. The company has 130 employees and recorded 2010 revenues of $37 million, with […]
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